Kevin Sloan Studio

12/06/2023

A few more books, including several years of the fabulous Horizon magazines.

12 pm to 7 pm
1218 W Davis St.

Cash and Zelle only

12/06/2023

I'm busy pricing and organizing for Friday's Kevin Sloan's Birthday Book Sale. Here are a few of the books for sale, including an interesting O'Neil Ford monograph. Most of the books are in like-new condition.

More pictures to come.

04/20/2022

At today's ASLA convention, Matt Stubbs (right) created and led a panel on Rewilding, entitled "Let's Go Wild!" Let to right are Zach Gomez, Angela Hunt, and Dr. Tom Lee. Thank you to the panelists! This was fun!

03/01/2022

I must add this: even "wild" gardens require maintenance. The Highline in NYC, which is pictured, may look wild, but its designer, Piet Oudolf, doesn't let his gardens do their natural thing, which is to morph and change through the years. He visits them and has the new plants that are grown through natural processes, such as seed distribution, runners, etc. removed, plants moved, and the garden held at its original design. This is labor intensive. The result is glorious, but it is not wild at all. The wildness is an illusion.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/reginacole/2022/02/28/the-chicest-gardens-today-are-not-groomed-or-tame-they-are-wild/?sh=7360fc48498a&fbclid=IwAR3sMfzVlJ3M9qSbNEFKmUmxBC41teHP0aXCYHCT5XHtvBYf-YWiY-ZU7P8

For some time, enlightened gardeners have grown away from contained, stiffly regimented beds organized around lawns in favor of free-form swaths of native plants, pollinators once considered weeds, grasses and wildflower meadows.

03/01/2022

Our Managing Principal Matt Stubbs was invited to attend the groundbreaking ceremony for our Residence Hall project at
A really exciting project to continue to fulfill the master plan vision of the freshman village. We are very grateful to the University and for selecting us to be the for such an amazing project. We can’t wait to see it completed. We also learned that the it will be called Wessel Hall in honor of the Wessel family that has been very generous in their support and donations to the University.

02/26/2022

01/30/2022

01/13/2022

Thank you, Marlon.

https://magazine.texasarchitects.org/2022/01/07/kevin-sloan-1957-2021/

We stood together, leaning back, staring up at the sky, waiting in a hilltop cemetery by a small country church in Nebraska, cows and prairie in all directions. I was...

01/08/2022

I haven't posted this because I still can't believe it's real. If you can attend Kevin's memorial service, please RSVP by January 15.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-celebration-of-the-life-of-kevin-w-sloan-tickets-215922789877

A Celebration of the Life of Kevin W. Sloan on January 29th at The Kessler Theater.

12/25/2021

All of us at Kevin Sloan Studio wish you and yours a very happy holiday season and a brilliant and blessed New Year.

11/08/2021

We have had so many lovely remembrances of Kevin from the AIA, the Dallas Architectural Forum, the Garden and Landscape Designers Association (Ireland), and more.

Thank you all.

Thank you for all the kind comments, especially from Kevin's former students. He loved his work as a land planner and landscape architect, and he loved teaching.

11/08/2021

Thank you again, D magazine.

https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2021/11/remembering-wild-dallas-landscape-architect-kevin-sloan/

The landscape architect’s big idea was that Dallas could change the way it imagines itself and its future by restoring nature's place within the urban environment.

10/28/2021

As many of you may be aware Kevin Sloan, our Founder and Principal, has been battling brain cancer since his diagnosis in February 2020. It is with heavy heart that we wanted to inform you that yesterday Kevin lost his battle with cancer. We had to say goodbye to one of the most inspirational, talented and wonderful persons that we have had the greatest pleasure to know. We have lost a great friend and mentor, whose life, work and enthusiasm had a significant impact on many people, from his students to the individual that may have just shared a short conversation with him at an event.

The Kevin Sloan Studio Family will continue as ambassadors to Kevin's great legacy, always striving to be great stewards of the profession.

Please continue to reach out to us as we move forward but we do ask for your understanding and patience if we aren’t as responsive as we normally would be over the next few days as we process this significant loss to the Kevin Sloan Studio Family.

Kevin’s fight may be over but his mark on the world will be visible for generations.

10/26/2021

Thank you GreensourceDFW!

https://greensourcedfw.org/articles/dallas-park-be-named-crusader-rewilding

The Jefferson 12th Street Connector will be demolished to make way for Kevin W. Sloan Park.

10/05/2021

Today Kevin was honored with a Special Recognition from the Dallas City Council. Thank you to Mayor Eric Johnson, Mayor Pro Tem Chad West, Angela Hunt, Philip Kingston, Don Gatzke, Bob Meckfessel, and the Dallas City Council.

This is such an honor. I'll post some photos of the event.

And thank you to Tim Rogers with D magazine for this wonderful article.

https://www.dmagazine.com/frontburner/2021/10/kevin-sloan-to-be-honored-with-park-naming/

The preeminent landscape architect has left his fingerprints on many Dallas projects.

09/08/2021

This is mesmerizing. I've been following raindrops everywhere!
https://river-runner.samlearner.com/

Watch the path of a raindrop from anywhere in the contiguous United States

10/21/2020

This is what we've been talking about! Let's do it!

"It's not the butterflies, it's the turkeys." The contractor put his hands on his hips. The Airfield Falls Conservation Park was under construction...